This information is provided to all teaching staff in Italian schools through a national distance learning project run in collaboration with RAI-Radiotelevisione italiana, which is currently at the closing stages (see Circular No. 17 of 14 January 2000); The introduction of a specific national programme of refresher courses for teachers of arts and foreign language subjects in issues concerning cultural and linguistic mediation and the teaching of Italian as a foreign language (see national employment contract of teaching staff, article 19 of Ministerial Directive 210/1999) for all teachers; The publication - coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - of a special issue of the official review of the Ministry of Education (“Annali della Pubblica Istruzione”, Nos.
- La introducción de un programa nacional específico de cursos de perfeccionamiento para profesores de arte y de idiomas sobre temas relativos a la mediación cultural y lingüística y la enseñanza del italiano como idioma extranjero (véase el contrato nacional de empleo del personal docente, artículo 19 de la Directriz ministerial Nº 210/1999), destinado a todos los profesores.